Refrigerator-door hinge.



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REPRIGERATOR DOOR HINGEI APPLICATION FILED JULY 2,1904.

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RTOHARD E. JONES, OF GLEN OLDEN, `PENNSYLVAN lA, ASSIGNOR TO JONES COLD STORE DOOR COMPANY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, A CORPORA- TION or MARYLAND.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed July 2,1904. Serial No. 215,128.

NQ 322,279.' Patented une 5, 1906.

O indicates a casting rigidly secured to the door-frame or wall or refrigerator, and D is a casting rigidly connected to the outer face of the door adjacent the central vertical line of said door. The casting O is provided with the parallel horizontal apertured ears C", and the casting D is also constructed with parallel horizontal apertured ears D E indicates the long flat bar enlarged at each end, as shown at E in Fig. 3, each enlarged end having a vertical bore E2, through which the bolts E3 are adapted to be passed, ,said bolts passing through the apertured ears and connecting the bar E to the castings. The barv E passes through a box-loop or guide F, which is made of iron or any suitable metal the same as the castings C and D and bar E, said box-loop or guide being rigidly connected to the outer face of the door adjacent its rear or pivot end, as most clearly shown in Fig. 2. The opening in this boxloop or guide is considerably wider than the thickness of the bar, and in practice T prefer to make that portion of the bar which rests in the guide considerably thicker than the other portions of the bar, as most clearly shown at Ff, the curved or swelled face of said bar being arranged outwardly, and between the inner face of the bar and the rear wall or the guide of the door proper, if preferred, I interpose a bowshaped spring G, the central portion of which bears against the guide or door and the ends against the bar, as most clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and is kept in place by a projection or guide F, engaging a slot in spring S, or by a bolt. H indicates a regulating screw or bolt passing through the front wall oi the loop or guide and bearing upon the swelled face of the bar. `The casting D being secured near the longitudinal center oi the door allows the spring G, bearing on the bar E, to force the heel or hinge edge of the door in against the frame; but as it is desirable to regulate this pressure and not force the door in too tight I employ the screw H. By tightening the screw H the heel cr hinge edge of the door is drawn, by means of the guide F, toward the bar E, and this relieves the packing of some of the pressure, and by loosening the screw H the spring G is permitted to force the door in against the Jframe. By proper adjustment of the screw H the same pressure is obtained on the TocZZ whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that T, RICHARD E. JoNEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Glen Olden, in the county oi Delaware and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usei'ul Improvement in a Referigerator-Door Hinge, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates generally to hinges, and more particularly to a hinge specially adapted to be used upon refrigerator, dustroof, and air-tight doors.

The object of the invention-is to provide a hinge for refrigerator, dust-proof, and airtight doors and whi h can be regulated as the occasion requires in order to make a perfectly tight iit of the door against the casing; and with this object in view my invention consists, essentially, in the employment of a long flat bar pivotally connected at its rear end to a casting attached to the door-irame or wall and connected at its forward end to a casting connected to the outer face of the door adjactnt the center of the same, the intermediate portion of said bar passing through a guide attached to the door adjacent the rear or pivot end.

The invention consists also in the employment of a spring between the said bar and the door and a regulating or set screw working through the. guide and bearing upon the bar for the purpose of increasing or decreasing the pressure upon the door, the regulating or set screw to have a jam-nut to prevent its working loose.

The invention consists also in certain details of construction hereinafter fully de-V scribed, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this spcciiication, Figure 1 is an elevation showing a compartment the door of which is hung my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the hinge. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the bar. Fig. 4 is a view of the guide. Fig. 5 is a perspective view ofv the bow-shaped spring. Figs. 6 and 7 are views ofthe castings. Fig. 8 is a sectional view of the casting shown in Fig. 7.

'Referring to the drawings, indicates a wall oi a cold-storage compartment, and B the door in the same, which parts may be of the usual or any improved construction.

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-ing castings secured respectively' to a door l hinge edge ofthe door as on the fastener side, and the door lits uniformly all around. By means of this regulating-screw and spring and the bar constructed and arranged as herein shown and described I am able to maintain the proper pressure upon the door, so that a tight fit can be always obtained, and if any of the parts should Wear or swell so as to interfere with the perfect fit of the door such Wear or swell can be compensated for by regulating the screw.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, anddesire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

1., A hinge of the kind described comprisand a door-frame,

a bar pivotall connected to the castings7 a guide carried y the, door through Which the bar loosely passes, a spring carried by the guide and adapted to bearon the inner face of the bar, and a screw Working through the outer side of the guide and adapted to bear on the outer face of the bar.

2. A hinge comprising the castings adapt` ed to be attached to the door and frame, a box-loop or guide adapted to be attached to thedoor, a bar passing through the guide and pivotally connected at its opposite ends to the castings, that portion ofthe bar resting in the guide being thicker than the other ortions, and a bow-shaped spring arranged Within the guide and bearing upon the inner face ofthe ar, and a regulating-screw Working through the outer side of the box-loop or guide and adapted to bear against the swelled face of 3 5 the bar for the pur ose set forth.

IC'HARD E. JONES. Witnesses:

WALTER M. GRAYsoN, LEIGH H. SHRIGLEY. 

